Basic Betacam Camerawork, 3rd Edition

Colour correction

Whether shooting interior or exterior, a fundamental problem with location work is dealing with a mixture of light of different colour temperatures. If the light remains uncorrected, faces and subjects may have colour casts which look unnatural and distracting.

The two most common light sources on location are daylight, which has a range of colour temperatures but averages around 5600K, and tungsten light which is often produced by lamps carried to the location which are approximately 3200K.

Colour correction filters

There are two basic types of correction filter used when attempting to combine mixed lighting of tungsten and daylight:

•	an orange filter which converts daylight to tungsten and is most often seen attached to ...